“Elon Musk’s Crash Course” raises a skeptical eyebrow toward Tesla’s vaunted Autopilot feature, maintaining the software hasn’t lived up to its promise and lives have been endangered as a result.
, nearly identical to the one that killed Brown. The Tesla was on Autopilot when a tractor-trailer pulled across the road. Banner’s car failed to recognize the side of the vehicle in the bright sunlight and went underneath it, shearing off the roof.
2. Some former engineers at Tesla privately harbored doubts about Musk’s promises to the public about the Tesla’s ability to self-drive.and that the kinks were merely being worked out, multiple former staffers allege in “Crash Course” that wasn’t the case behind closed doors. Others allege that they worried the Autopilot technology was being sold to and used by people who believed it would provide the same elevator-like transportation experience Musk had once described — drivers who believed they could get in, provide a destination, then sit back and relax. When Brown’s crash happened, “I was aware that people were trusting the system to do things that it was not designed or capable of doing,” says JT Stukes, senior project engineer at Tesla from 2014 to 2018.
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